Posted on 09/09/2009 1:20:32 PM PDT by Jedediah
True enough, Alex.
Isn’t an unwritten rule that if you talk about someone that you ping them?
” When I think the Lord is speaking to me, its more like, Stop complaining and sort the laundry, already.
Snort* LOL!
My “Lord” moment is usually, “Ok, so you think that was a charitable thing to say, do you?”
Last time I checked, it was considered proper etiquette.
I’ve heard that one, too, in rather more blunt phrasing!
Per say.......
Don't drag me into your sewer, mare.
Ladies and gentleman, I give you post #60, the most cowardly post of the week.
Yes, dear.
The Lord has spoken to me so many times in this vein, He has a shorthand now: “Hey....I heard that.”
Roman Catholics (and those who refuse to use the Roman tag) have been taught all of their lives that the Church is responsible for their salvation. Mary mentioned their love for the Gospels and for Paul, yet they will not accept most of what Paul had to say. They use it only to reinforce their POV.
But God gives us the Holy Spirit as a teacher, if we ask. If we ask the RC priest, we will get a RC answer. It doesn't matter that the Bible forbids most of their liturgical display with smells and bells. It doesn't matter to them that they are bowing to statues, praying to dead people, and revering only some people as "saints".
Paul wrote to the Roman church. We have a copy of his letter to them. They felt bound to live by the law given to Moses. The Jewish influences were rejected by Paul, as he explains in that letter. The extraordinary detail he gave to the chains of the Law as opposed to living according to the grace God has granted to us.
It's much more comfortable to sit in a pew and stand or kneel according to rote, than to sit in a still place waiting to hear from God. It's easier to have a prescribed role rather than the flow described by Paul. We are not going to change some minds with debate on these threads. God does that. But, we can raise Him and let the Spirit do His job...
God's catholic church contains every soul claiming salvation from Jesus Christ. The Roman Catholic Church probably has some too...
Romans 4: 16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspringnot only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. 17 As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believedthe God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as deadsince he was about a hundred years oldand that Sarah's womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22 This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness." 23 The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousnessfor us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. ...
Your own personal interpretation of Scripture.
Wrong as usual.
Hey...you got one right.
Pete, thanks for the reply. I was expecting it. Your knee was jerking as soon as you saw my screen name, I'm sure. I am only wrong if the Scriptures are wrong, FRiend. Your indoctrination does not make things so...
You can expect me to post Scripture in every response. I will not interpret anything. I will allow God to do that through His Holy Spirit. He's a personal friend of mine...
Romans 5: 1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, wehave peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! 10 For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
You trying to make this personal? Yak?
I am only wrong if the Scriptures are wrong...
Nope. Scripture is true, your interpretation of Scripture is not Scripture. Quoting Scripture is great, keep it up.
It just doesn't say what you claim it says. That's your problem.
Thank you, WVKayaker. That was an excellent post. I appreciate you. Mary
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